Gun StuffJeff Soyer on 01 Feb 2013 04:44 am
It’s the latest thing at a large sporting clay range in Las Vegas:
The $3 million, “five-star” sporting clay course, located 25 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip at the Clark County Shooting Complex, offers 30 different shooting [courses?] across 75 acres of land. The sport more commonly known as “golfing with guns” offers experienced shooters a chance to test out their skills.
Video at the link.
And, I’m glad I’m not the only one who uses a pump gun for clays. I use a Mossberg Turkey Thug, though depending upon how I’m shooting that day, I’ll change the XX-Turkey choke for one a bit less, er, focused.
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on 01 Feb 2013 at 2:52 pm # comatus
No, the smallbore Dewar match is “the golf of shooting.” I like “sporting clays” though; “shooting trap” combines two yuckies and really confuses the sheep, and although I didn’t go all Urban Dictionary until I heard Obama claim it, “skeet” is a fairly dirty street saying. Neither Barack nor I speak ghetto. I have an excuse.
To judge by the guys I grew up shooting with, trap is more like pinochle with guns. Sorry — I don’t mean to insult any pinochle players…
Coach, volunteer, native-bearer and boon companion of a smallbore mom, I have spent weeks a year memorizing every blade of eagle-despoiled grass at Camp Perry through a spotting scope. I’ve gotten to where I can’t drive past a golf course without dreaming of what a beautiful shooting range that would make. After the revolution?
Mickelson might have made his 58 if he’d called for a 410-iron.